Dan Scott

Daniel "Dan" Scott (1745-) was a member of the South Carolina colonial militia during the American Revolutionary War.

Biography
Daniel Scott was born in Pembroke, South Carolina in 1745, and he held patriot sympathies at the time of the American Revolutionary War. One day in 1780, Corporal Gabriel Martin entered the Pembroke church to recruit congregants for the militia. Scott was sceptical, saying that King George could hang anyone in the church, just as his soldiers had done with three townspeople not long before. However, Peter Howard's daughter Anne rallied the people of the church, and she called out Scott's hypocrisy, as he had previously ranted about independence for two hours. Scott ultimately decided to join the militia, fighting under Benjamin Martin's command. He bullied the slave Occam, questioning why slaves were given weapons, and why the Continental Congress wanted to free and pay slaves who served in its army. However, Scott warmed up to Occam after Occam saved him during the Battle of King's Highway, during which he was wounded. The two men fought side-by-side at the Battle of Cowpens in 1780, and they both helped to rebuild Martin's home after the war.